The Waverley novels, by Sir Walter Scott, complete in 12 vol., printed from the latest English ed., embracing the author's last corrections, prefaces & notes.

102 WAVERLEY NIOVELS.
Lord Dalgarno looked after her, then looked at Glenvarloch, shook Ilis
head, and repeated the well-known lines"Mhy lord, beware of jealousyIt is the green-eyed nmonster which doth make
The meat it feeds lon."
"But come," he said, changing his tone, "I know not why I should worry
you thus - I who have so many follies of mny own, when I should rather
make excuse for being here at all, and tell you wherefore I came."
So saying, he reached a seat, and, placing another for Lord Glenvarloch,
in spite of his anxious haste to anticipate this act of courtesy, he proceeded
in the same tone of easy familiarity:
"We are neighbours, my lord, and are just made known to each other.
Now, I know enough of the dear North, to be well aware that Scottish
neighbours must be either dear friends or deadly enemies —must either walk
hand-in-hand, or stand siword-point to sword-point; so I choose the hand-inhand, unless you should reject my proffer."
" How were it possible, my lord," said Lord Glenvarloch, "' to refuse what
is offered so frankly, even if your father had not been a second father to
me?" And, as ihe took Lord i)algarno's hand, he added —" I have, I think,
lost no time, since, during one day's attendance at Court, I have made a
kind friend and a powerful enemy."
" The friend thanks you," replied Lord Dalgarno, "for your just opinion;
but, my dear Glenvarloch —or rather, for titles are too formal between us
of the better file-what is your Christian name?"
"Nigel," replied Lord Glenvarloch.
" Then we will be Nigel and Malcolm to each other," said his visiter,
"and my lord to the plebeian world around us. But I was about to ask you
whom you supposed your enemy?"
" No less than the all-powerful favourite, the great Duke of Buckiugham."
"You dream! What could possess you with such an opinion?" said
Dalgarno.
"He told me so himself," replied Glenvarloch, " and, in so doing, dealt
frankly and honourably with me."
" Oh, you know him not yet," said his companion; " the Duke is moulded
of an hundred noble and fiery qualities, that prompt him, like a generous
horse, to spring aside in impatience at the least obstacle to his forward
course. But he means not what he says in such passing heats-I can do
more with him, I thank Heaven, than most who are around him; you shall
go visit him with me, and you will see how you shall be received."
"I told you, my lord," said Glenvarloch firmly, and with some haughtiness, "the Duke of Buckingham, without the least offence, declared himself my enemy in the face of the Court; and he shall retract that aggression
as publicly as it was given, ere I will make the slightest advance towards
him."
"You would act becomingly in every other case," said Lord Dalgarno,
"but here you are wrong. In the court horizon, Buckingham is Lord of
the Ascendant, and as he is adverse or favouring, so sinks or rises the fortune of a suitor. The Kin3g would bid you remember your Phsedrus.
Arripiens geminas, ripis cedentibus, ollasand so forth. You are the vase of earth; beware of knocking yourself
against the vase of iron."
"The vase of earth," said Glenvarloch, "will avoid the encounter, by
getting ashore out of the current —I mean to go no more to Court."
" Oh, to Court you necessarily must go; you will find your Scottish suit
move ill without it, for there is both patronage and favour necessary to enforce the sign-manual you have obtained. Of that we will speak more hereafter; but tell me in the meanwhile, my dear Nigel, whether you did not
wonder to see me here so early?"